Friday, October 22, 2010

Read the Writing on the Wall

This is what passes for political discourse in this country and the internet isn't much better. This was taken above the urinal at our local coffee shop. I didn't realize there was someone in the stall next to me and that my phone's shutter sound could easily be heard. Perhaps he thought I was pulling a Brett Favre. Anyway, it reads, "Obama is like crack. Both set African Americans back 2 decades." Beneath it is written, "Ahmen."

So it is written. Being the first African American president set civil rights back two decades, not using a racial stereotype by comparing the president to a drug to which anybody can get addicted.